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Can you elaborate? Thanks.

I disagree. An author encodes the semantic information in their mind into a physical form (e.g., a book) suitable for transmission to others. When tha...

I think that "meaningful" implies that the information has already been interpreted. In my current working definition of information, I removed any re...

Floridi defines information as well-formed data which is meaningful. Are your viewpoints amenable to this definition?

To be clearer: I posted quotes in response to unenlightened's statement regarding the claim of "physicist's these days." Re-read it if you must. For t...

Wait. There's more: In both cases , physics ends up endorsing an information-based description of nature. The universe is fundamentally composed of da...

Here's a quote from another religious fanatic you may find amusing: Information is information, not matter or energy. No materialism which does not ad...

John Archibald Wheeler was a theoretical physicist. What does religious ecstasy have to do with his quote?

More like: sharks smelling blood in the water, circling their prey, anticipating a feeding frenzy. Correct. John Archibald Wheeler writes: “It from bi...

All manner of equivocation is serving to confuse this thread; probably because the OP was confused to begin with. Information not defined in terms of ...

WAI members compete with their domestic suppliers in downstream markets, and the Department of Commerce isn't concerned about the downstream impacts o...

Truth is a proposition which accurately describes experience or reality (i.e., actuality). Because the same phenomenon may produce (a) different effec...

Yes, and as Harry Hindu pointed out: technology is a test of the truth value of that science per Negative Pragmatism, to wit:

You're kidding, right? The OP is concerned with the relationship between Science and Philosophy. We attach different meanings to the term "Science", s...

What is your definition of modern "Philosophy"?

Then please define "Philosophy" in a way which includes activities such as Aristotle's zoological observations.

So, Aristotle's zoological observations were philosophy, not science? And Zhang Heng (78-139), Zhang Zhongjing (150-219), Aryabhatta (476-550), al-Hay...

Does the origin of the scientific method go back "thousands of years" (Jeremiah), or "several centuries" (Marchesk)?

I provided a definition for "Science" in my first post to this thread. Feel free to provide a different one for consideration.

Empirical investigation may consist of simple observation (e.g., flint can be chiselled to provide a cutting edge), or more complex observation (e.g.,...

Correct.

If it were required, by conceptual analysis, to wit: 1) Science: empirical investigation which provides a reliable explanation. 2) Technology: applied...

The situational context (a redundant phrase) shared by all human beings, the human condition (i.e., existence as a human being), produces its own form...

I would prefer to use the word "origin" rather than "creator", because creations can be natural or artificial (to create is simply to produce somethin...

A domain ontology is a verbal model. And a new building is a verbal model before it becomes blueprints, then bricks and mortar.

Human beings are unique among all other organisms in nature in that they have the faculty of language. This faculty permits verbal conceptualisation (...

Great question. Does it help to define nature as: the universe not produced by human verbal modelling (recognising that humans, being part of nature, ...

Thanks very much for a summary I have saved to disk.

I'm sympathetic to T Clark's comments. The OP concerns a topic I'm familiar with, but I also have plenty on my reading plate. Instead of making others...

"It" either reads the signs, or creates them (thinking of the creative power of Hoffman's conscious agents); a conscious agent, or agents, which trans...

I agree.

Semiosis is sign processing (a psychological process of cogitation exercised by psychophysical organisms, or conscious agents). Signs (i.e., represent...

Similar to the entropy equivocation (thermodynamic-information) devised by von Neumann and Shannon: Just substitute "semiosis" for "entropy" and "ever...

The only thing huge here is your ego. All hail, Science. Are you mad? You believe in physicalism because it complements other aspects of your worldvie...

I agree. Hopefully, after reading Streetlight's recommendations, you will be able to answer my question.

What standards (other than morality) are available as a basis for political evaluations?

It reminds me of the operation of empathy, which informs the ethical interpretation of social situations.

The money is going to buy things (as always). First, to buy things that control people. So, forget about trying to pin blame on politicians, social in...

Human nature is not a variable, it's a constant. It is also not a cause or symptom of "these developments"; it is a necessary condition for them.

What an absurd statement, given that social change is the statistical product of the behaviour of large numbers of individual human beings.

These developments are financially mandated and a function of human nature.

I provided the following general definition of life in the "What is Life?" thread (participants included Apokrisis, Javra, Metaphysician Undercover, a...

Please provide a synopsis. If we're lucky, the thread may tolerate a close comparison. Otherwise, we are left with a dispute "over the best flavour of...

Without testable hypotheses, Science only contributes relevant established facts to the problem space. And I suspect that the only contribution Philos...

Good point and question. Can the OP be reduced to an hypothesis, such as: 1) Life evolves from non-life, or 2) Inanimate matter creates conscious agen...

Sorry, it's all clear as mud to me. But thanks for trying.

Thanks for the explanation. However, it sounds a bit reality-independent to me.

I give up, why? Seriously, I don't understand the question. I agree that defining consciousness on the basis of conscious animal behaviour introduces ...

Do you and/or Heidegger have a general definition of "(B/b)eing" that can be used as a starting point for conceptual development, and how does that re...